Bodily versus Imagined Deprivation

Psychoanalysers took the congenital nature of the castration complex for granted and were not interested whether the subjects exhibiting sexual frustration were circumcised or not. Thus they totally ignored the possibility that the castration complex may be induced or facilitated by circumcision. They preferred to believe that castration anxiety is a result of an imaginary fear too sophisticated for children instead of to assume that its effects stemmed from an actual physical deficiency of the somatosensory system that is an integral part of the neurons system.[i]

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